NASA has released an image taken by the Hubble space telescope of a cluster of stars known as NGC-121, in one of our neighboring galaxies.

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NASA has released an image taken by the Hubble space telescope of a cluster of stars in a neighboring galaxy.

Its name -- NGC 121 -- may be prosaic, but the image is spectacular.

This so-called globular cluster is in a galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud, which, at a distance of about 200,000 light-years, is one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors. Click here for the high-resolution image.